# 4. Synopsis (about 200 words)
Su Niantang thought signing a contract marriage was just a business deal: she would pay off her debts, he would get his inheritance, and after a year they would go their separate ways.
But she never expected that Shen Yanci was more frightening when he smiled than when he wore a cold expression.
When someone bullied her, he quietly destroyed them, then turned around and said, “What does that have to do with me?”
When she worked late into the night, a bowl of hot porridge appeared on her desk, but he said, “The kitchen made too much. It would be a waste to throw it out.”
When she said she wanted to leave, he used the gentlest voice to say the most suffocating words:
“Miss Su, the contract hasn’t expired yet.”
Everyone said Shen Yanci was a gloomy, obsessive control freak.
But only Su Niantang had seen the man curled up in the corner of the attic on a stormy night, with a loneliness in his eyes deeper than anyone else’s.
She wanted to leave, and he wouldn’t let her. She wanted to stay, and he pushed her away.
Until the day the contract expired, when she placed the divorce papers on the table…
The man who never bowed his head looked at her with red-rimmed eyes and said:
“Please, don’t go.”
